Chapter 35 Smoke and Silence

(Zuri POV )

The fire takes a long time to die.

Even after the last truck burns to ash, the air still glows with heat, shimmering like a mirage. Smoke curls around us in lazy spirals, swallowing the horizon until it feels like there’s no sky, no world — just this stretch of ruin. The smell of melte...

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